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Nato intervenes in Kosovo

How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.

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The largest war crimes trial in history

The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.

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Greece's Great Famine

How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.

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How Tinder changed the dating game

How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance

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The World Wide Web

How the World Wide Web was created

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Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme

The programme that's let millions of EU students live and study in other countries.

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Women's rights in Basra

How women in the southern Iraqi city were persecuted for "anti-Islamic" behaviour

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Britain's Soviet spy scandal

In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.

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Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising

A boy caught up in the forgotten battle for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979

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The battle for Kinder Scout

How workers in Manchester fought for the right to walk in the nearby countryside.

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Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber

Zohra Drif targeted an ice-cream parlour in Algiers during the war of independence

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The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience

A first-hand account of the brutal French tactics against Algerian independence fighters

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Algeria: The Massacre in Paris

How French police turned on Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961, killing dozens.

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The Algerians who fought for France

The bitter experiences of the fighters who opposed their own country's independence.

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Algeria's rebel footballers

Algerian players secretly left their French clubs to form their own national team in 1958

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The sinking of the Belgrano

An Argentine survivor remembers being torpedoed by the British during the Falklands War.

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Surviving the Falkands War

British soldier Simon Weston was severely burned in an Argentine attack in 1982.

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Roe v Wade

How a young lawyer from Texas got the US abortion laws changed in 1973

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The chemistry of cannabis

How an Israeli scientist discovered the crucial compounds in the widely-used drug

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Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

A first-hand account of taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s

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Soviet nuclear missile alert

The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.

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China opens up to capitalism

How China's Communist rulers established the country's Special Economic Zones in May 1980

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Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe

How the eruption of a little-known Icelandic volcano grounded flights in Europe in 2010

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Egypt's bread riots

How huge unrest forced the Egyptian government to ditch a plan to increase bread prices

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The war in Transnistria

The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s

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People Power in the Philippines

In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos

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The murder of Kelso Cochrane

How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry

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The first McDonald's in Moscow

The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990

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Shanghai at War

A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s

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Chasing the Marcos millions

The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president

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